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• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  it’s an intermission in between two acts of a play that’s lasted too ... do tomorrow. My lack of focus causes stress, and the stress is in turn ... . Starting to push a boulder is difficult, and stopping it is equally as hard

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  the best purchase I've made in the last year is a wind-proof jacket from ... life in general to be happy with your work, and MIT is a place where this ... was warned about them. 1. The weather in Boston is mildly ridiculous

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  A few months ago, I stumbled across this blog, which takes a look at a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course ... Fluids Engineering II) problem set. 2.006 is the second in a two ... understand. Erons ’12, also Course 2 (“I major in Awesome.”), is taking a break

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  cubes in a 3D world...The game is divided into two main modes, Alpha and ... 't anything else to this post. Minecraft is a fun silly game in which you can do ... entirely: Minecraft. What is Minecraft? Quoth Wikipedia: a sandbox building

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him ... . What they can do is impose a fine on *not* consuming the good, but still

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  . Being a hopeful Course 10Eng-Biomedical and without fluency in any other ... 11:52 AM on June 9th, a cool but sunny day in Johannesburg. I took an ... up starving and freezing in a surprisingly cold South African winter

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  ) Jon Stewart introducing himself back in 1999. A moment for us is gone ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... to call out BS, animated by an earnest belief that there is a truth out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  by how hot it was. [annotation note="a humidifier is a must in macg ... , much later than anticipated, is a blog detailing life since that fateful ... ="64169" image3="64141" /] There was a check-in process for first-year students

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  year it gets to just be too much. MIT is much better summarized in little ... entry every time there's a quick update (every several days or so) and in time you'll have a timeline snapshot of me! This is an experiment, we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a ... 've never seen a martin scorsese film"]Martin Scorsese[/annotation], who is ... in [annotation note="do kids these days even know what shark tale is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  of several language classes is available in condensed form: three hours a day, five days a week, but the benefit is that you get an intensive ... for the spring. I was given a slot in the French 1 class and am pretty

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... with a degree in Brain and Cognitive Science, he entered the Harvard ... fide graduate, Berry remains active in the MIT community. He is on MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , after all, loves biology. Piper is looking for a summer UROP in bio ... thing about being in a major that is both interesting in itself and widely ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do with a bad grade in quantum? What is my life going to be? (Avenue Q, anyone?)

  

  "IS MY LIFE RUINED?" and his answer was, in a nutshell, "no. don't let ... It took me a while to internalize that a grade is fixed but one's reaction to it is not. Like I mentioned, 8.05 (Quantum II) was a rough time

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 4, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  the Hofbräuhaus, which is probably a little like Durgin Park in Boston ... Munich that afternoon, but there were a lot of people walking around in ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  seventeen and a half years.[/caption] Hello, blog readers! This is Jessie ... Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome myself, which is something I didn’t know in college ... . I ended up getting a PhD in computer science after a few post

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  published a paper in Science, one in Neuron, and one in Cell Reports. So I am ... , at work? And the answer is ARE YOU JOKING? He’s always been a model ... and fly one of every ship in Wookieepedia. Step one, obviously, is to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... four dimensions to people in a comedy special is exceptional, and I ... student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and